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        <h3 class="trigger"><a href="#">If I'm a home service provider (realtor, 
          inspector, builder, contractor, etc.), how can I offer the Home Wizard 
          app to my customers?</a></h3>
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                  <div> If you are a home service provider, you know how important 
                    it is to keep in touch with your customers on a regular basis. 
                    And making it easier for them to take care of their home, 
                    save energy, improve safety, etc. is a great way to show them 
                    that you really care, and a great way to build your personal 
                    brand. <br>
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                    Applica Solutions is a developer of applied customer loyalty 
                    solutions, and has developed the Home Wizard app along with 
                    a suite of other services, to help home service providers 
                    to grow and improve their businesses. <br>
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                    The Home Wizard iPhone app is an example of one of these solutions. 
                    By giving your customers a "promo code," they will receive 
                    bonus features of the app, and they will see your unique branding 
                    and messages throughout the app. For example, they will be 
                    able to see your name, picture or image, contact information, 
                    and a message from you on their Welcome screen. And they will 
                    also see your name and contact information at the bottom of 
                    key screens in the app. And they see your name with a button 
                    on the Admin screen, that will take them to a screen in the 
                    app that will be a place that you can fill up with info and 
                    links about you and your business. <br>
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                    You can learn more about giving the Home Wizard app to your 
                    customers, as well as other solutions for home service providers, 
                    by going to Applica Solutions at www.applica-solutions.com	
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        <h3 class="trigger"><a href="#">What is a "Promo Code"?</a></h3>
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                  <div> Home Wizard is designed for home service providers who 
                    really care about their customers, and who want to help to 
                    make it easier for their customers to take care of their homes, 
                    save energy, improve safety, and more. <br>
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                    Home professionals, such as realtors, home inspectors, contractors, 
                    builders, etc. give their customers a "promo code" that they 
                    can put into the Home Wizard app, which gives their customers 
                    and clients access to bonus features of the app. Plus it allows 
                    the home professional to display their unique branding throughout 
                    the app, and to communicate monthly special announcements, 
                    offers, and sometimes just a friendly message. <br>
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                    The promo code can be put in when the app is initially setup, 
                    or it can be added later by clicking on the "Promo Code" link 
                    that is in the "Admin" section. </div>
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        <h3 class="trigger"><a href="#">How is a personalized home care program 
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                  <div> The Home Wizard personal home manager creates a personalized 
                    monthly home care program for you based on the type of home 
                    that you live in, your home features, local climate, your 
                    goals, knowledge level, and priorities. <br>
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                    Every home is unique, and everyone has their own unique goals 
                    and needs for caring for their home. For example, someone 
                    living in in a single-family house who only cares about keeping 
                    it safe will want a very different personalized home care 
                    program than someone who is living in a leased condo that 
                    is concerned about saving energy and being more green. <br>
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                    Over years of research, Home Wizard has created a large, comprehensive 
                    database of recommended tasks, tips and home improvement ideas 
                    for every home feature and twelve possible goals . . . and 
                    has analyzed how each of these are affected by a variety of 
                    important conditions. When Home Wizard calculates a personalized 
                    home care program for you, it takes into account your input 
                    on 6 different factors: <br>
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                    Dwelling Type: The possible features for a single-family home, 
                    for example, are very different than for an apartment or a 
                    vacation condo for winter use. When you select your dwelling 
                    type, Home Wizard automatically adjusts the possible choices 
                    of home features to match the type of dwelling that you live 
                    in. <br>
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                    Home Features: You can select the specific features that apply 
                    to your particular home. For example, the type of HVAC systems 
                    that you have, your appliances, the structural elements of 
                    your home, outside features, furnishings, and safety & other 
                    features. The recommended maintenance tasks for these features 
                    are calculated by Home Wizard, along with the appropriate 
                    helpful operating tips and home improvement ideas . . . but 
                    before these get included into your final home care program, 
                    the Home Wizard calculations also take into account other 
                    factors which are described below. <br>
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                    Local Climate: Your personalized home care program is adjusted 
                    for the climate, timing of seasons, length of seasons, etc. 
                    for where you live. <br>
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                    Goals: Your personalized home care program is customized for 
                    you based on which of 12 possible goals that you pick, and 
                    the importance that you put on them. For example, you may 
                    have certain goals that you pick as your top goals, but others 
                    you may consider as only secondary goals. And there may be 
                    some of the 12 goals that you do not want included at all. 
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                    Knowledge Level: Someone who has lived in their type of home 
                    for 20 years and is very handy has completely different needs 
                    from someone who has just bought their first summer vacation 
                    townhouse, or is living in their type of home for the first 
                    time. Home Wizard allows you to choose your particular knowledge 
                    level, so that your personalized home care program is consistent 
                    with your needs. <br>
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                    Priority: Home Wizard scores each task, tip and idea based 
                    on its benefits and costs. The ones that are rated as "five 
                    stars" are the ones that have the highest benefits relative 
                    to the cost of doing this task, tips or idea . . . and therefore 
                    have the highest priority score. You can select which level 
                    of priorities that you want to receive. <br>
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                    Home Wizard's calculations takes all of these inputs and then 
                    uses proprietary algorithms to create an optimized schedule 
                    of the specific maintenance tasks, helpful tips, and home 
                    improvement ideas that are recommended for your specific home 
                    features, and your particular goals and needs. <br>
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                    For example, some maintenance tasks that are recommended for 
                    the particular features of your home are due during certain 
                    seasons of the year, some are due once a year, whereas some 
                    are only once every 5 years. The proprietary algorithms in 
                    Home Wizard spread these tasks out so that you are not swamped 
                    with tasks one month, and then have nothing the next month. 
                    But since certain tasks are seasonal, such as changing air 
                    conditioning filters for the summertime, these get assigned 
                    to specific months. Also, tasks that require tools, skills 
                    or contractors that are similar are factored to be grouped 
                    together. And of course, potential tasks are screened by the 
                    Home Wizard algorithms to ensure they are completely consistent 
                    with your selected goals and priorities. <br>
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                    Similarly with helpful tips and improvement ideas, Home Wizard 
                    has a database of over 4,000 tips and ideas, but the ones 
                    that get included in your personal home care program are only 
                    the ones that are consistent with all of the criteria that 
                    you have input. And they get included in the months when they 
                    are most appropriate for you, given your seasonal local climate, 
                    home features, goals, and knowledge level. <br>
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                    You can also put in your own Custom Tasks, and Home Wizard 
                    will automatically include them in with your monthly reminders 
                    for the months that you assign them to, and can even allow 
                    for Custom Tasks that have multiple year cycles. </div>
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        <h3 class="trigger"><a href="#">How does Home Wizard help me to achieve 
          my customer's goals for their particular home?</a></h3>
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                  <div> Properly taking care of your home can save you money on 
                    energy, improve safety for your family, help avoid unscheduled 
                    repairs, and the other goals that you may have. <br>
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                    But let's face it, doing routine home care tasks isn't typically 
                    fun, and changing behavior for helpful operating tips or planning 
                    home improvement projects is not easy. And if you get your 
                    monthly lists and think to yourself "wow, these are great, 
                    I should really do them" . . . but don't take any action . 
                    . . then this isn't really helping you to achieve your goals. 
                    So how does Home Wizard overcome these challenges? <br>
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                    Home Wizard applies 6 principles to help motivate, inform, 
                    support and encourage you to actually do the specific tasks, 
                    tips, and improvement ideas that will help you to achieve 
                    your goals for your particular home. These 6 principles are: 
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                    1) Make it easier: The easier it is to do, the more likely 
                    it is that we will do the right things. So to make it easier 
                    to do the recommended home care program for your particular 
                    home, Home Wizard gives you the information you need at your 
                    fingertips, and gets it to you right when you need it. The 
                    app also gives you easy access to additional helpful information, 
                    and makes it easy for you to keep track of what needs to be 
                    done, and what items have already been completed. <br>
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                    2) Personalize, personalize, personalize: Personalization 
                    is one of the most important principles of Home Wizard. It's 
                    much more likely that we will be motivated to do things when 
                    we have the confidence that the advice we are receiving applies 
                    exactly to our specific situation and needs. So the Home Wizard 
                    app calculates the tasks & tips that are specifically recommended 
                    for your particular home, local climate, features, goals, 
                    priorities, and knowledge level. <br>
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                    3) Increase the transparency of benefits: The more clear are 
                    the benefits, the more likely it is that we will be motivated 
                    to take action. This is why when you get your monthly Home 
                    Wizard list of personalized tasks & tips, each of them is 
                    shown with an at-a-glance rating of one to five "stars" for 
                    their relative priority based on their benefits relative to 
                    their costs. And in the details screen for each of them, it 
                    gives a description of the benefits and costs of doing this 
                    particular task, tip or idea. <br>
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                    4) Provide timely reminders: We are all busy, and even if 
                    we know everything that there is to possibly know about home 
                    care for achieving our specific goals for each and every feature 
                    of our particular home . . . it's easy to forget what exactly 
                    needs to get done and when. This is why Home Wizard provides 
                    automatic monthly reminders, and allows custom tasks to be 
                    added to these reminders as well. <br>
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                    5) Give how-to information: For some people, all they need 
                    are reminders. But for others, another barrier to getting 
                    things done is to better understand what is involved . . . 
                    regardless of whether they plan to do it themselves, or to 
                    hire a contractor. So this is why the Home Wizard app includes 
                    links for "Even More Information" which takes you to the appropriate 
                    pages of the Home Wizard "Home Care Library," which have detailed 
                    how-to information, questions & answers, related articles, 
                    and more. <br>
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                    6) Track your performance: And finally, seeing your progress 
                    can be a great motivator. Many of us take a great deal of 
                    satisfaction by being able to check things off as they are 
                    completed, and this is why the Home Wizard app allows you 
                    to check off and monitor which tasks are "done" and which 
                    ones are still to do. </div>
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        <h3 class="trigger"><a href="#">What is the difference between "Routine 
          Care Tasks," "Helpful Tips," and "Improvement Ideas"?</a></h3>
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                  <div> Routine Care Tasks are things that should be done on a 
                    regular basis to achieve your goals for each of the features 
                    of your particular home. <br>
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                    Helpful Tips are suggestions for the best ways to use the 
                    particular features of your home to achieve your goals, and 
                    these typically require only a change in behavior. <br>
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                    And our Improvement Ideas are suggestions for home improvements 
                    that will help you to achieve your goals for your particular 
                    home. These typically involve a capital investment, and can 
                    save you time and/or money in the future. <br>
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                    So as an example, let's say you live in a single-family home, 
                    and one of your home features is a clothes dryer, and your 
                    goals include energy savings and safety. A Routine Care task 
                    could be to check once a year that the outside flap on your 
                    dryer vent is not stuck open due to link build-up (a stuck 
                    flap allows heat in and out of your home, which wastes energy, 
                    and it also allows a place for pests to get in). And a Helpful 
                    Tip could be to use an indoor drying rack during the winter 
                    for some of your clothes (for example towels), to both save 
                    energy and add to needed humidity to your home (if you live 
                    in a cold climate). And an Improvement Idea could be to install 
                    a lint alarm (since lint is very flammable, and dryer fires 
                    are one of the leading causes of home fires). </div>
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